Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Sep 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994sprt.nasa..385l&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Lewis Research Center, Proceedings of the 13th Space Photovoltaic Research and Technology Conference (SPRAT 13) p 385-3
Computer Science
Performance
Energy Conversion Efficiency, Satellite Solar Energy Conversion, Solar Cells, Spacecraft Power Supplies, Sunlight, Temperature Effects, Asteroid Belts, Earth Orbits, Mars Surface, Mathematical Models, Performance Prediction, Solar Electric Propulsion, Solar Generators
Scientific paper
Energy conversion efficiency is an important parameter for solar cells, and well reported in the literature. However, solar cells heat up in sunlight, and the efficiency decreases. The temperature coefficient of the conversion efficiency is thus also extremely important, especially in mission modeling, but is much less well reported. It is of value to have a table which compiles into a single document values of temperature coefficients reported in the literature. In addition to modeling performance of solar cells in Earth orbit, where operating temperatures may range from about 20 C to as high as 85 C, it is of interest to model solar cells for several other recently proposed missions. These include use for the surface of Mars, for solar electric propulsion missions that may range from Venus to the Asteroid belt, and for laser-photovoltaic power that may involve laser intensities equivalent several suns. For all of these applications, variations in operating temperature away from the nominal test conditions result in significant changes in operating performance. In general the efficiency change with temperature is non-linear, however, in the range from negative 100 C through room temperature to a few hundred degrees C, efficiency is usually quite well modeled as a linear function of temperature (except for a few unusual cell types, such as amorphous silicon, and for extremely low bandgap cells, such as InGaAs).
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